A Durham woman was sentenced to between 77 and 105 months in Orange County prison on Thursday, after striking a Chapel Hill Police Officer with her vehicle, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.
50-year-old Joanne Kay Hall entered a guilty plea to charges of possession of a stolen vehicle, felony fleeing and eluding as well as assault on a government officer in connection with the incident.
Hall was charged in May after she ran into Chapel Hill Police Officer Drew Cabe with a vehicle. Assistant District Attorney Lamar Proctor tells WCHL that, on the day of the incident, Hall had left a drug treatment facility in Wilmington, stolen a vehicle, and was stopped for driving 65 in a 45 mile-per-hour zone while driving through Chapel Hill.
Proctor says Hall then led Cabe on a chase down Fordham Boulevard. Cabe eventually cornered Hall’s vehicle and exited his police cruiser. At that point, Hall ran into Cabe, tossing the officer onto the vehicle. Cabe then fired three shots into the left rear tire of the vehicle and Hall was taken into custody.
Proctor says that Hall apologized in court on Thursday before being taken back to jail.
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